Mary Mallery, Ph. D. Assoc.
Dean for Tech. Services,
(5 mins)
Exercise: Name your past college (grad or undergrad)
What was the library system there?
Describe what did you like about it? What did you dislike?
How was it different from your public library?
(20 mins)
http://blake.montclair.edu/~mallerym/libauto.html (30 mins)
Break
Exercise: VALE online catalogs analysis
1) Research
library (
2) Medium-sized state college Library (The College of NJ)
3) Independent college/university Library (MonmouthU.)
4) Community College Library (Brookdale CC)
Choose a Group Recorder
Choose your group’s academic library system at http://www.valenj.org .
Q: Can you tell what library vendor they are using?
Serials: Look up Fortune magazine. Is there a link to online version?
Reserves: Is it on the OPAC? Is there E-Reserves?
Q: What does the OPAC say about the school? Is there a link from the OPAC to the Library home page/college home page?
Report back to the Class
(30 mins)
(10 mins)
Resources: Books
(Wilson, Thomas C. (1998). The Systems Librarian.
Journals (ITAL from LITA http://www.lita.org )
Organizations (ACRL-NJ Tech. Committee http://www.njla.org/njacrl/ )
Listservs (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/ )
(10 mins)
Conclusion:
Next Classes in March: Governance (shared and standalone) and Financing